M. Ryan

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Former tracker/kerner. Second career as recently minted JD. We’ll see.

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The best reason to believe the threat of Project 2025 is because there’s no way Trump would ever write his version of Mein Kampf on his own but he’d definitely plagiarize another guy’s.

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Y’all got about an hour left as I clean myself up, get a cup of coffee, and sit down before I close it out and see what kind of seedings you brought me!

Morning chief! As of 7:30am BST you had not closed the google form down.

Three nominations and Six votes. That’s the answer.

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On INDEPENDENCE DAY they published this. ON THE FOURTH OF JULY 2024 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOLD PEOPLE NOT TO VOTE. I'm furious.

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

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The demise of Chevron is being widely interpreted as an expansion of judicial power. It is that, but it also and more profoundly an expansion of power of moneyed interests. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-money-...

The Money Coupdonmoynihan.substack.com What the fall of Chevron deference means for state capacity

Madeline Kahn, Eileen Brennan, and Howard Hesseman, this evening.

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If there is anything resembling an afterlife, I hope right now, somewhere, Jessica Walter is happily shrieking “Gene Parmesan!”

Martin Mull, comic actor of ‘Clue,’ ‘Roseanne’ and ‘Arrested Development,’ has died

Martin Mull, Comic Actor of 'Clue,' 'Roseanne' and 'Arrested Development,' Dies at 80www.thewrap.com Martin Mull, best known for his roles in "Clue," "Roseanne" and "Arrested Development," died Thursday at age 80.

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2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!" 2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons." latenighter.com/news/paramou...

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

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So many ways to talk about this from copyright being too long, to giant media conglomerates sucking, to how dangerous it is that things like the Internet Archive are fighting for their legal lives...

More than two decades’ worth of content published on MTVNews .com is no longer available

MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offlinevariety.com The website of the already-defunct MTV News has been fully pulled offline.

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This stage of capitalism feels like the end of a monopoly game that’s been going on for hours and you already know you lost but the dick winning won’t let you go to bed until they get all of your money or you die.

I love that the “Airport” franchise is ultimately built around… George Kennedy.

Add food, ruin a film. Blood Simple pudding

Add food, ruin a film. Blade Runner Beans.

Add food, ruin a film MASHed peas

Add food, ruin a film Chitty Chitty Bang Bangers and Mash

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Frantically refreshing social media at 10 am ET to learn what’s to become of the Union, as the Founders intended

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Reminder: we're going to do a big Bluesky read-along of Gravity's Rainbow from September 1st - October 12th on the Rainbow Connection feed bsky.app/profile/did:... let me know if you want to be added! 🚀

The Rainbow Connection 🚀

Feed by @harrisj.bsky.social

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AN ARMY OF LOVERS CAN BE BEATEN let me know if you want to join us on the Gravity’s Rainbow from Sept 1 - Oct 12 🚀

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we’ll gather our grandchildren around and try to tell them what it was like to live in the last days of Chevron deference

“Most of the leaders that I was working with clearly had not gotten as far as reading about it for thirty minutes despite insisting that things like, I dunno, the next five years of a ten thousand person non-tech organization should be entirely AI focused.”

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Behold, the Cool S Sword.

Albanian kit is 😘🤌

Heritage.

Crème Brûlée.

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Load-bearing comma.

I’m looking for a suitable follow up to MR James. Any thoughts? I miss that mix of spooky, cozy, and engrossing.

Make a movie milder: 29 Days of Dusk

Make a movie milder: Seven

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If you put a doorbell in your commercial, just know that I will go out of my way not to purchase your product or service.

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: Some of my fondest summer evenings as a child were spent playing lawn darts.

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I died of dysentery. Multiple times.

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Check out this great deal on my new book "Cue The Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV," available only through the genius/book-maven/mensch @mattzollerseitz's fabulous book emporium: mzs.press/SIGNED-Cue-t...

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TOP TEN ILLAS: 10. van 9. flot 8. gor 7. scint 6. chinch 5. tort 4. quesad 3. sarspar 2. sinsem 1. godz

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Your theorists were so preoccupied with whether or not they should they didn’t stop to think if they could